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@seemasirohi @Rabs_AA Dream on. Pakistan can't achieve anything out of this except eyeballs

It's not a zero-sum game this time: "Why Pakistan’s Diplomatic Win Need Not Be India’s Loss" buy @Rabs_AA thewire.in/south-asia/why…

@RnaudBertrand Economist is worse than high school toilet scrawlings. Pimps of the west.

This is just pure unadulterated propaganda by The Economist, as is so often the case with their coverage of China (reminder that, if you read The Economist, the Chinese economy should have collapsed more or less every year for the past 20 years). I actually come from a country - France - where our minorities did actually get squashed, so I have a pretty decent understanding of what that concretely means. For instance in France our regional languages (Basque, Alsacien, Corsican, Breton, Occitan, etc.) have ZERO official status, cannot be used in government, and - under French law - were prohibited in classrooms under threat of punishment (kids at school were made to wear a necklace of shame around their neck if they spoke their regional language: #Fin_du_XIXe_si%C3%A8cle_-_Politique_et_h%C3%A9ritage_de_Jules_Ferry" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergonha#…). The first line of Article 2 of the French constitution (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_2…) - as amended in 1992 - specifies that French is the exclusive language in France and constitutionally excludes every other language from any official role whatsoever. There was, in France, an official policy of linguicide. The net result, according to official French statistics (ined.fr/fr/publication…), is that regional languages like Corsican or Breton went from being spoken in 70%-80% of local families at the end of WW1 down to sub-10% numbers by the end of the 20th century. Even Alsacien, the most resilient regional language, still saw its transmission rate collapse from 70% to 18% in just 2 generations. That, folks, is "squashing." Same thing, incidentally, in the UK - The Economist's own country: a reminder that in Wales schools used the "Welsh Not" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Not), a token of shame that a child would need to wear around their neck if they were heard speaking Welsh. Compare and contrast this with this new Chinese law. First of all, fact is that if you look at minorities with their own language in China, the immense majority of them still speak it and use it in their daily life. For instance, a 2017 survey conducted by 国家语委 (the National Language Commission, the authoritative Chinese body on language policy), only 30% of people in Tibet had functional Mandarin proficiency (tibetology.ac.cn/2023-02/10/con…). In other words, Tibetan, not Mandarin, remains the dominant working language of daily life for the overwhelming majority of the population in Tibet. Same story with Mongolian: according to China's Sixth National Census (2010), 85.25% of ethnic Mongols still used Mongolian in daily life (nmlr.muc.edu.cn/info/1119/2132…). Which means, as a starting point, that China already did a far better job than virtually any Western country at protecting their minority languages. Important context when we're speaking about Western media lecturing China on the topic... Heck, a good case could be made that they did TOO GOOD a job given that - among some ethnic minorities - most people speak ONLY their regional language, and can't even speak Mandarin, which is actually one of the main points of the new law. So let's look at this new law (full text here: neac.gov.cn/seac/xwzx/2026…). Does it officially recognize and protect minority languages? Yes, the law literally says "The state respects and protects the learning and use of minority languages and scripts, promotes the regulation, standardization, and digitalization of minority languages." Does it ban minority languages in schools? No. The new law does tilt education further toward Mandarin - requiring nationally unified textbooks and designating Mandarin as the basic language of instruction - but it does not abolish minority-medium schools (民族语授课学校 in Chinese, literally "minority-language-instruction schools") which can continue to operate with state funding in their respective regions. Does it ban minority languages from government? No. Article 15 explicitly states that "where relevant laws require documents to be issued in minority languages, both the national common language version and the minority language version shall be provided" (依照有关法律规定需要使用少数民族语言文字发布文书的，应当同时提供国家通用语言文字版本和少数民族语言文字版本). Does it ban minority languages from public signage? No. The law requires Mandarin to be displayed "prominently" alongside minority scripts in public settings - not instead of them. Does it undermine autonomous regions? No. Article 8 of the new law explicitly reaffirms "upholding and improving the system of ethnic regional autonomy" (坚持和完善民族区域自治制度). Which means that the 1984 Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law remains in force, with their local regions' legal authority to adopt regulations suited to local ethnic conditions. So all in all, what you CAN say is that the new law does indeed promote Mandarin and pushes to ensure every Chinese citizen can speak a common national language - which is, frankly, a pretty normal thing for any country to expect. What you CANNOT say - unless you are writing propaganda rather than journalism - is that this law "squashes" 55 ethnicities. Actual squashing is hanging a wooden clog around a child's neck for speaking his mother tongue. Actual squashing would be making minority languages or culture anticonstitutional. A law that funds minority-language preservation, preserves minority-medium schools, reaffirms regional autonomy, requires bilingual government documents and operates under a Constitution whose Article 4 guarantees all ethnic groups "the freedom to use and develop their own spoken and written languages and to preserve or reform their own traditions and customs" is not "squashing" anything. It's a level of minority-language and cultural protection that the French Republic - or the UK - has never offered its own citizens in its entire existence.

@111ris_ @pundu2000 Meera

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@YRanaraja @Anaslqbal Jaish e mohammed. Handover their top brass and india will start dialogue

@hal1988 @Anaslqbal JEM leaders?

All SAARC members have been willing to cooperate, but the main obstacle has come from India. Pakistan has made clear that regional goals cannot be achieved without equality and a shared commitment —Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar

@TheEconomist Suck my indian dick

The Mughals brought language, food, architecture, music, art and syncretism to India. And they brought Narendra Modi’s party to power economist.com/asia/2026/04/1…

@Factnews2003 @stats_feed Paypal atleast 4k

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@RnaudBertrand Let them think China is receding. Let them think India is receding. After all purchasing power is everything.

This chart is all kinds of misleading. The guy reads it as "the Chinese economy stagnating" when the only thing it actually shows - this being Chinese *nominal* GDP *denominated in USD* - is a currency appreciation of the dollar vs the yuan in 2022-24. The only thing that "dipped" was the exchange rate you divide by. In reality, China's real GDP actually grew by +26% cumulatively over 2020-24 vs +12.5% for the U.S., so the Chinese economy grew more than twice as fast as the American one. And, interestingly, the dollar's appreciation has now reversed: yuan is up 7% YoY. Which means the red line on the graph is about to do something very inconvenient to the narrative 🤷

@Anaslqbal @YRanaraja Hand over JEM leaders and SAARC can continue

@YRanaraja SAARC is stalled because India has always played a role against regional peace and the West's interests too. Time for alternatives like China-led initiatives

@slimjimmy @NoctreSharp Maybe reasoning itself is exactly that. Find the next step/token

@NoctreSharp i was wowed by this behaviour too. and i felt it must be reasoning but i don't think it is and i don't think it can be. i do not believe a process that's essentially just picking the next likeliest token can do anything close to genuine reasoning, only the imitation of

where i'm at on LLMs: 1. LLMs are NOT going to outmode software engineers, not now, not ever 2. LLMs alone are a dead end for attaining anything like AGI 3. forget about LLMs achieving ASI 4. LLMs will only make good engineers faster, marginally 5. LLMs will remain poor at architecture and design this is 100% because LLMs cannot reason and no, generating a bunch of hidden context is not "reasoning" as always, when the same people are making claims like this, have a look at what they stand to gain and to them, i warn directly: you are going to fall. hard

@MichaelKugelman Spoken like a true Porkistani dick sucker

FWIW: -As neighbor & friend, naturally Munir would have close ties w/intel folks in Iran. Doesn’t seem like a revelation. -Unclear why US should see his Iran intel ties as a “red flag.” If anything, US now sees this as an asset, given Pak’s mediation role. foxnews.com/world/trumps-f…

@DerekJGrossman @ShivAroor Derek is Pakistan's pimp @DerekJGrossman

@ShivAroor At least “@“ me next time, @ShivAroor

Imagine being an American and having this view today 😂 A country that’s been humiliated in an unpopular war, zero leverage at talks, several ‘laundry fires’, ALL its Gulf Bases hit, $200 billion vaporised in losses etc, and Iran’s regime still standing. “Head spinning” indeed.

@balajiworld India should have just sent your mom to Pakistan to suck dicks with her poison laced tongue and killed off all those terrorist gentlemen.

Bhakts are getting educated by my tweets opposing the moronic war Modi started with Pakistan and lost. All of India’s recent troubles - tariffs, resurgent Pakistan, humiliation by Trump admin - are because of Operation Sindoor. Will take trillions to fix the military.

@zwangeer_ @NickJFuentes Check nur Khans pussy porki

@hal1988 @NickJFuentes 6-0

Pakistan has nukes pointed at India and Israel but we’re supposed to hate them?

@aftabwains @MarioNawfal Empty stadiums cuz people can't buy petrol in Pakistan and this whore here talks random bullshit. Anyway here you go

Pakistan just saved the world from another full-blown war like a absolute BOSS 🇵🇰💪 While India gets invited for the 'cleaner' role to mop up an already open Strait 😂🤣 No need saar, Iran already reopened it thanks to Islamabad's mediation. Sit back and enjoy the peace we delivered! 🇵🇰❤️

THE COUNTRY TO WATCH OUT FOR IS NOT CHINA, IT IS INDIA Modi is playing Geopolitical chess better than anyone

@Syed_Asiff @el__arena @spectatorindex China cannot decouple from US. Keep wet dreaming cutie.

@hal1988 @el__arena @spectatorindex Just like arguments, pulling numbers out of your a$$. Says a lot about you and your bizarre arguments.

Indian oil refiners paid for Iranian oil using Chinese yuan, according to Reuters report.

@el__arena @Syed_Asiff @spectatorindex Halfwit here thinks US bonds aren't leverage for China. And it's not billions. It's trillions dumbass

@hal1988 @Syed_Asiff @spectatorindex Pretentious economist with no imagination thinks China will be hurt because the USD they hold will become worthless.

@el__arena @Syed_Asiff @spectatorindex Unless they want their bonds to erode in value. All these dedollarising fantasy lunatics can become good sci fi writers

@hal1988 @Syed_Asiff @spectatorindex China don't want dollars to be trashed is a ridiculous statement to make.

@Syed_Asiff @spectatorindex No individual country controls the tap for any other country dedollarising. Each country has its own calculus. china is not waiting for india to join the whatever group to start adoption

@hal1988 @spectatorindex Yes, they do but because of SWIFT being the main player. Once there is an alternative common currency inter-banking payment system, you don’t rely on the dollar nor on SWIFT. Ever heard of CIPS?

@Syed_Asiff @spectatorindex Dont be stupid. China hold the highest dollar based bonds. They don't want dollar to be thrashed. Stupid nuts like you think some headlines are principles of geopolitics

@spectatorindex India was the reason BRICS couldn't launch its own common currency, it refused to back the idea, fearing it would offend the US. Now, India is facing the heaviest backlash from Washington and paying in alternative currency at the same time.

@sanjeevsanyal @devendrasm China is already doing the mistake of protecting people against AI jobs artificially

It is not really possible to do this ex ante just as the impact of electricity was not possible to guess in the late 19th century. This is exactly why fluid economic systems - with easy insolvency, flexible labour markets, a vibrant stock market etc - will always outperform great planning. The risk taking can be done by private sector or even the state, but the real game is willingness to wipe clean the failed bets in each round of innovation.

He is so wrong on this. AI will certainly cause dislocation, but like all technology it will also create new jobs and opportunities in the medium term. AI and robots will also not produce goods and services in excess of money or demand that there will be no inflation. Both of these are classic mistakes made by those who think that there is a finite number of jobs to be done in the world and a finite set of consumer demands. By their logic, we have already exceeded everything that even the wealthiest person could have imagined in 1800, so there should be no jobs or inflation in the 21st century. By the same token, @elonmusk 's universal high income will bankrupt any government that attempts it.